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FAQ: What are the facts about sexual assault?

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What are the facts about sexual assault?

Rape in America: A Report to the Nation* estimates that 683,000 women are raped each year and that--

Every minute in America, there are 1.3 forcible rapes of adult women. This means that 78 women are forcibly raped each hour, and 1,871 women are forcibly raped every day.
One out of 8 adult women, or at least 12.1 million American women, has been the victim of forcible rape.
Sixty-one percent of forcible rapes occur before victims reach age 18: 29 percent of all forcible rapes occur when the victim is younger than 11 years old, and 32 percent occur when the victim is between ages 11 and 17.
The occurrence of "acquaintance rape" is much higher than "stranger rape"--78 percent of rapes involve a person the victim knows.
Rape has a devastating impact on victims' psychological health, with 31 percent of all rape victims developing posttraumatic stress disorder at some time in their lives.
Only 16 percent of rapes are reported to police.
One in six men will experience a sexual assault in his lifetime. (Intimate Partner Violence. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000)

* Rape in America: A Report to the Nation (Arlington, VA: National Center for Victims of Crime and the Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, 1992) is based on two national studies of 4,008 adult women and 370 rape crisis centers conducted by the National Center for Victims of Crime and the Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.

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